{"id":11773,"date":"2022-04-19T11:31:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T15:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=11773"},"modified":"2022-04-21T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T16:33:24","slug":"elizabethtown-college-students-present-at-the-pennsylvania-academy-of-sciences-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2022\/04\/19\/elizabethtown-college-students-present-at-the-pennsylvania-academy-of-sciences-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Students Present at the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several Elizabethtown College Biological and Environmental students recently presented at the <a href=\"https:\/\/pennsci.org\/annual-meeting-registration\/\">2022 Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences (PAS) Meeting. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 97<sup>th<\/sup> annual meeting was held March 25-27 at DeSales University.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Biotechnology student Kailey Caroland \u201822 was awarded first place for her presentation titled, \u201cIncreased Expression of SAM68 in SV40 Transformed Human Diploid Fibroblast Cells and the Effect on Downstream Splicing Targets.\u201d Caroland was mentored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etown.edu\/depts\/biology\/faculty-biology.aspx\">Professor of Biology Jane Cavender<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Kleb \u201822, a Biotechnology major, Mathematics and Psychology minor, received the third-place award for her presentation titled, \u201cThe effect of Poly(I:C) and IFN-\u0251 on the immune system as Observed through IL-12 production in dendritic cells,\u201d She was mentored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etown.edu\/depts\/biology\/faculty-biology.aspx\">Dean of the School of Sciences and Professor of Biology Jodi Lancaster.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cI would like to give a huge thank you to Professor Lancaster,\u201d Kleb said. \u201cShe has been a mentor to me since before I even decided to come to Etown. Placing in a conference and having an abstract published as an undergraduate student is a great accomplishment for me and gives me confidence going into my graduate school program.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Poster Presentations: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Characterizing Ferroptosis in the Model Invertebrate Hydra Vulgaris \u2013 Jackson Dardis \u201823, Darci Ott \u201823, Victor Witofsky \u201824 and Associate Professor of Biology Diane Bridge<\/li>\n<li>Increased Expression of SAM68 in SV40 Transformed Human Diploid Fibroblast Cells and the Effect on Downstream Splicing Targets \u2013 Kailey Caroland \u201822, John Hanson \u201822, and Professor of Biology Jane Cavender<\/li>\n<li>SV40 T-antigen Sensitization of Human Cells to Erastin and Cisplatin-Induced Death: Apoptosis or Ferroptosis? &#8211; John Hanson \u201822, Kimberly Manning \u201823, and Professor of Biology Jane Cavender<\/li>\n<li>The Effect of Poly(I:C) and IFN-\u0251 on the Immune System as Observed through IL-12 Production in Dendritic Cells \u2013 Sarah Kleb \u201822 and <strong>Dean of the School of Sciences and Professor of Biology <\/strong>Jodi Lancaster<\/li>\n<li>A Survey of Hydra Species in Selected South Central Pennsylvania Lakes, and Differences between Species in Dispersal-Related Behavior \u2013 Kayla Morrill \u201822, Riley Moore \u201823, Katie Hollen \u201822, Alexandra Gates \u201823, and Associate Professor of Biology Diane Bridge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Elizabethtown College Biological and Environmental students recently presented at the 2022 Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences (PAS) Meeting. The 97th annual meeting was held March 25-27 at DeSales University. Senior Biotechnology student Kailey Caroland \u201822 was awarded first place for her presentation titled, \u201cIncreased Expression of SAM68 in SV40 Transformed Human Diploid Fibroblast Cells and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":11774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,7,764],"tags":[1140,490,197,1350],"class_list":["post-11773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-achievements","category-campus-community","category-research-and-academics","tag-academic","tag-achievements-2","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11773"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11801,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11773\/revisions\/11801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}